Departmental Retirement

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many serving armed services personnel have taken voluntary early retirement in each year since 2001.

Bob Ainsworth: The number of trained UK Regular Forces service personnel who have taken early voluntary retirement is recorded in tables one to eight of TSP5 (UK Regular Forces Outflow From Trained Strength to Civil Life) as outflow type "Voluntary Outflow".
	TSP5 is published monthly, the current September 2008 publication includes time series back to 1998-99 and can be found at:
	http://www.dasa.mod.uk/applications/newWeb/www/index. php?page=48&thiscontent=60&date=2008-10-14&pubType= 1&PublishTime=09:30:00&from=home&tabOption=3
	Copies of TSP 5 are also available in the Library of the House.